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Mortician Hoffman afterward announced: "Undoubtedly it was one of the most beautiful and impressive burials ever held in Omaha." Hot weather, he pointed out, adds to the discomfort of the bereaved, cool night services would be "of a comforting nature" to them. Moreover, as a matter of convenience, friends and relatives would not have to leave their work during the day if people were buried at night...
Deep within the brain is a biologically ancient section called the diencephalon or tweenbrain.* Here the sensations on smell, sight, visceral activity, body position, temperature and pain pause a jiffy on their way to the thinking part of the brain. When one has a general feeling of discomfort, his tweenbrain is trying to tell his main brain an incoherent story. Vague emotions reflect the tweenbrain's mentally low-grade activities. Stomach "nervousness" must also have some relation to the diencephalon, for it to some extent controls digestion and other vegetative processes...
...gymnasium on the boxing-room and fencing room floor? There is hardly one shower in which a majority of the needle-points are in working condition. As a result the water comes through the few points that are clear with such force that it produces great discomfort and difficulty in getting a proper shower. Another point is that the mixer when turned so as to produce cold water, reduces the water pressure to a minimum...
...stands a stone monument called the Harding Memorial, erected by the Canadian Kiwanis Club. It honors Warren Gamaliel Harding, only President of the U. S. to visit Canada while in office, whose reception at Vancouver shortly preceded his death in San Francisco. But Vancouver Kiwanians squirmed with discomfort last week. Other thoughtful citizens deplored. U. S. visitors were in a ferment of indignation. For, despite many a protest, Vancouver's loud evening Sun ("Vancouver's most useful institution") was publishing serially The Strange Death of President Harding by onetime Federal Sleuth Gaston B. Means (TIME, March...
...same doctrine was applied in the similar Massachusetts case of Smith v. New England Aircraft Co. But there, injunction was denied, largely because the portion of the plaintiff's land in question was covered with dense brush and woods, and the occupants failed to prove material discomfort to themselves because of low flying...